Two-time James Beard Award semi-finalist Matt Millar will take over Mabel Gray in Hazel Park on February 6 for a single dinner showcasing his culinary talents for the first time in metro Detroit.

The executive chef of the critically acclaimed Southerner restaurant in Saugatuck made his bones in some of west Michigan's finest kitchens, including Reserve in Grand Rapids and the shuttered Journeyman in Fennville, before opening a culinary ode to his Tennessee roots in 2015.